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Cook County Sheriff Cracks Down On Franklin Park Drug Operation
Produced by Susie An on Thursday, October 29, 2009

Cook Country Sheriff Tom Dart (AP/File)

The Cook County Sheriff's Department has made more than 100 arrests during a 6 month long investigation in Chicago's northwest suburbs. Sheriff Tom Dart says the undercover investigation called Operation Room Service seized more than $100,000 in drugs and guns. He says much of the drug and prostitution activity took place in motel and hotel rooms.

Dart says some violators purposely moved their criminal operations from the West Side of Chicago to suburban Franklin Park.

DART: They used a lot of principals that business people do in deciding where was their market and where was it that they would have the greatest access to people that were trying to buy narcotics from them and where would they have the least resistance.

Dart says many of the arrests were gang related. He says officers are still looking for three main targets in the investigation.

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